piglet

See also: Piglet

English

Etymology

From pig +‎ -let (diminutive suffix). Attested from 1855. Displaced Old English fearh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪɡ.lət/

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• Rhymes: -ɪɡlət
• Hyphenation: pig‧let

Noun

Three domestic piglets peeking out of a shelter.

A wooden piglet figurine from the Late Middle Kingdom.

piglet (plural piglets)

2. A young pig or swine, one not yet mature.

   Synonyms: bonham (Ireland, rustic), pigling (dated), hog-babe (archaic)

   Hypernyms: pig, swine, porcine < suidian < suilline < mammal < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature

   Coordinate term: hogget (obsolete)

   Near-synonyms: porklet, shoat, suckling pig, porkling (dated), porket (archaic)

   • 1855 December 10, “Mother Goose in Trochaics”, in Buffalo Morning Express‎^[1], Buffalo, NY, page 4:

     Very little was this piglet,
     And of course was not a big pig,

Derived terms

• guinea piglet
• moss piglet
• niglet
• niglette
• Piglet

Translations

young pig

• Afrikaans: varkie (af)
• Albanian: gic (sq), bërkoq m, bic (sq) m, derrkuc (sq) m
• Arabic: خِنَّوْص m (ḵinnawṣ)

  Moroccan Arabic: حْليّف m (ḥləyyəf)

• Armenian: խոճկոր (hy) (xočkor), գոճի (hy) (goči)
• Asturian: cuin (ast), gochín (ast), gochapu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: pota, çoşqa
• Balinese: kucit
• Basque: txerrikume (eu)
• Belarusian: парася́ n (parasjá), парасё n (parasjó)
• Bulgarian: прасе́нце n (prasénce), прасе́ (bg) n (prasé)
• Burmese: ဝက်ကလေး (my) (wakka.le:)
• Catalan: garrí (ca) m, porcell (ca) m, porquet (ca) m, godall (ca) m, marranxó (ca) m, verratell (ca) m
• Cebuano: baktin
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 豬仔 / 猪仔 (zyu¹ zai²), 仔豬 / 仔猪 (zai² zyu¹)

  Hakka: 豬子 / 猪子 (chû-chṳ́), 細豬仔 / 细猪仔 (se-chû-é)

  Hokkien: 豬仔囝 / 猪仔囝 (zh-min-nan) (ti-á-kiáⁿ, tu-á-kiáⁿ), 豬仔 / 猪仔 (zh-min-nan) (ti-á, tu-á), 豬豚仔 / 猪豚仔 (ti-thûn-á, tu-thûn-á)

  Mandarin: 豚 (zh) (tún), 小豬 / 小猪 (zh) (xiǎozhū), 豬崽 / 猪崽 (zh) (zhūzǎi), 仔豬 / 仔猪 (zǐzhū)

• Cornish: porghellik m
• Czech: sele (cs) n, čunĕ n
• Danish: pattegris
• Dutch: big (nl) n, biggetje (nl) n
• Esperanto: porkido
• Estonian: põrsas, notsu
• Faroese: súggrísur m
• Finnish: porsas (fi)
• French: cochonnet (fr) m, goret (fr) m, porcelet (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: bigge, biggel

• Galician: porquiño m, rancho (gl) m, bácoro (gl) m, larego m, rello (gl) m, rengo m, trizó m, reco (gl) m, cuico m, leitón (gl) m
• Georgian: გოჭი (goč̣i), ბურვაკი (burvaḳi)
• German: Ferkel (de) n, Schweinchen (de) n

  Alemannic German: Färli n

• Greek: γουρουνόπουλο (el) n (gourounópoulo)

  Ancient Greek: χοιρίδιον n (khoirídion), χοιρίον n (khoiríon)

• Hawaiian: puaʻa keiki
• Hebrew: חֲזַרְזִיר (he) m (khazarzír), חזירון m (khaziron)
• Hindi: घेंटा m (ghẽṭā)
• Hungarian: malac (hu), malacka (hu), kismalac (hu)
• Icelandic: grís (is) m, gríslingur m
• Indonesian: anak babi, genjik (id), kucit
• Irish: banbh (ga) m
• Italian: maialino (it) m, porcello (it)
• Japanese: 子豚 (ja) (こぶた, kobuta), 豚児 (ja) (とんじ, tonji)
• Javanese: genjik (jv)
• Kapampangan: abiac (traditional), abyak (modern), abiak, bigac (traditional), bigak (modern)
• Kazakh: торай (toray)
• Korean: 새끼돼지 (saekkidwaeji)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kudik (ku), berazok (ku), xinzîrk (ku)

• Lao: ລູກໝູ (lūk mū), ລູກຫມູ (lūk mū)
• Latgalian: syvāns m, syvalāks m
• Latin: porcellus m, porcella f, porculus m, porcula f
• Latvian: sivēns m
• Lithuanian: paršas m
• Low German: Farken (nds) n
• Luxembourgish: Fierkel n
• Macedonian: прасенце n (prasence), прасе (mk) n (prase), гуде n (gude)
• Malay: anak babi
• Maltese: qażquż m, ħannus m
• Manchu: ᠮᡳᡥᠠᠨ (mihan)
• Manx: bannoo m, ark f, urk f
• Māori: punua poaka
• Maranao: bakting
• Mazanderani: خیکله (xikële)
• Mi'kmaq: gulgwi'ji'j anim
• Moksha: пурхц (purxc)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: торой (mn) (toroi)

  Mongolian script: ᠲᠣᠷᠤᠢ (torui)

• Nahuatl: pitzoconetl
• Norwegian: grisunge m, pattegris m
• Occitan: porquet (oc), porcèl (oc)
• Old Church Slavonic: прасѧ n (prasę)
• Old English: fearh m
• Persian: خوکچه (fa) (xukče)
• Polish: prosiak (pl) m, prosię (pl) n, browek m
• Portuguese: porquinho (pt) m, leitão (pt) m, bácoro (pt) m, bácoro (pt) m
• Quechua: uru kuchi
• Romanian: purcel (ro)
• Romansh: purschè m, purschi m, purtschi m, purtscheala f, purschel m, purschlin m
• Russian: поросёнок (ru) m (porosjónok), сви́нка (ru) f (svínka), свинёнок (ru) m (svinjónok), подсви́нок (ru) m (podsvínok) (aged between four and ten months)
• Scottish Gaelic: bigean muice m, uircean m, arcan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: прасе n, свињче n, одојак m

  Latin: prase (sh) n, svinjče (sh) n, odojak (sh) m

• Sicilian: purciḍḍuzzu m
• Slovak: prasiatko n
• Slovene: prašiček m anim, (suckling pig) odojek m anim
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: prose n

  Upper Sorbian: proso n

• Spanish: lechón (es) m, cerdito (es) m, gorrino (es) m, guarín m (last of a litter)
• Subanen:

  Lapuyan Subanun: bethin

• Swedish: kulting (sv) c
• Tagalog: biik (tl), buwik
• Tamil: பன்றிக்குட்டி (ta) (paṉṟikkuṭṭi)
• Thai: ลูกหมู (lûuk-mǔu)
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} domuz yavrusu, domuzcuk
• Turkmen: jojuk
• Udi: пота (pota)
• Ukrainian: порося́ n (porosjá), порося́тко n (porosjátko)
• Uzbek: cho'chqacha
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} lợn con
• Volapük: (♂♀) svinül (vo), (♂) hisvinül, (♀) jisvinül, (unweaned, ♂♀) sugasvinül (vo), (unweaned, ♂) sugahisvinül, (unweaned, ♀) sugajisvinül, (castrated ♂) hosvinül, (spayed ♀) josvinül
• Walloon: pouchlon (wa) m, coshet (wa) m
• Welsh: porchell (cy)
• Yiddish: חזירל n (khazerl)
• Zazaki: xozek